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“Am I Black Enough: Growing Up Biracial/Multiracial,” a panel discussion. Sponsored by the Center for African American Students. Contact: Shaunte Polk, polk4@marshall.edu.
The Marshall University Department of History will present the 2022 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture, featuring Dr. Caroline Light, director of undergraduate studies and senior lecturer at the Program in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. The lecture, “Whose Castle?: The Weaponization of Self-Defense,” will take place Monday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m.... View Article
At 4 p.m., Shawkey Dining Room, Memorial Student Center – “The Appalachian Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. William Turner, author and diversity consultant, Distinguished Professor of Black & Appalachian Studies (Retired), Berea College. Co-sponsored by Drinko Academy, Woodson Lyceum, College of Liberal Arts and Academic Affairs. The public may view this meeting... View Article
Panelists will discuss personal experiences, challenges and emotions of some young people who have moved to West Virginia. Sponsored by the Center for African American Students and Black United Students. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Shawkey Room in the Memorial Student Center.
Featuring historian Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander of Norfolk State University, 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, Shawkey Room, Memorial Student Center. Newby-Alexander is dean of the College of Liberal Arts, a professor of history, director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for African Diaspora Studies. She will explain the historical impact of 1619 and commemorate the arrival... View Article
The A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series at Marshall University will kick off the spring semester by hosting a reading with Appalachian novelist Robert Gipe and poet Savannah Sipple at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center. The event will include readings, a Q&A with the authors and a... View Article
The December reading event for the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series will serve as a celebration of Marshall faculty members who write creative work in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. The featured readers include Laura Michele Diener, Nicole Lawrence, Daniel O’Malley, Joel Peckham, Rachel Peckham, Forrest Roth, and Victor Fet. This event is free and open... View Article
In recognition of National Hunger Action Month, the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series at Marshall University will kick off the 2018 fall semester with its annual Writers Harvest, a literary event to support the Facing Hunger Foodbank. The event is planned for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student... View Article
Literary reading and presentation, DeMaris Hill and Bernard Grant, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, Memorial Student Center, Shawkey Room. Presented by the Marshall University College of Arts and Media, the Birke Fine Arts Symposium is made possible by the generosity of Helen Birke and her daughter, Julie, through the Birke Fine Arts Symposium Endowment. All... View Article
